Re: NetworkManager and vmware bridged network?

[Mike Bydalek <mbydalek contentconnections com>]

Brett Johnson wrote:
> Is anyone on the list using vmware on a machine running NetworkManager?
>   
You betcha.
> It appears that there is some sort of race condition when vmware sets up
> its bridged NIC (vmnet0) to bridge to a NetworkManager-managed nic
> (eth0, for example).  This usually happens within a few minutes of
> vmware setting up vmnet0, and it hangs the machine.
>
> This is happening on a laptop running ubuntu breezy, with the
> network-manager 0.5.1-0ubuntu1 package obtained from
> http://bootlab.org/~j/NetworkManager-breezy/
>
> Anyone have any clues for me on this?  Any hints on how to debug?
>
>   
The problem has nothing to do with NetworkManager, but with your drivers
(at least that was the case with me).  I use the ipw2200 driver, and the
one that came with Breezy didn't work with VMware, so I had to manually
upgrade to the latest version and that solved everything. 

Since you're on a laptop, I bet you're having the same problem.

-Mike